Word: intrepid
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...Come in with a smile. The guests expect it." But aside from journalists and a few diplomats, guests are rare. For nine years, the Al Deira staff have been waiting for the arrival of peace, and tourists. Some day, says Skaik confidently, "tourists will come to Gaza." And the intrepid travelers will find a hotel that blends the best of Arab hospitality and style...
Father to the other two space-time travelers in the show, Rick here is more the intrepid guide, or he acts that way, even when he's feeling trepid. To blend in with prehistoric beasts, he'll douse himself in the dinosaur urine he's harvested. He'll wander - make that blunder - into dangerous situations and, in the movie's sharpest moment, tiptoe through a nest of baby dinosaurs, sedating the little ones by singing "I Hope I Get It" from A Chorus Line. Less overbearing than in his earlier films but no less resolute, Ferrell seems to be channeling...
Taran Davies who evidently initiated the production, along with his partner Dominic Cunningham-Reid of Cosmic Picture, is an intrepid film-maker. His first film Around the Sacred Sea tells the story of a five month expedition on horseback around Lake Baikal in Siberia with a group of his Harvard friends taken soon after graduation. Since then he has become an expert on Central Asia and Islam...
...States' most enduring icon of freedom, the Statue of Liberty. Though the pedestal and lower observation deck re-opened in 2004, the statue itself has been off-limits since the Twin Towers fell barely two miles away. Last week Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that, beginning July 4, 2009, intrepid tourists would again be welcomed into the statue and up the 168 narrow, twisting steps to the crown and its breathtaking views of New York Harbor...
...knowing that most of out-of-work travellers will be particularly price-sensitive, some companies have crafted special offers for the newly unemployed. Intrepid Travel, an Australian tour operator with U.S. headquarters in Boulder, Colo., recently launched a promotion dubbed "Laid Off Take Off," through which customers who provide letters stating that their jobs have been terminated within the last calendar year get 15% off trips to a variety of destinations...